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Crow recoiled, nose crinkled, as Stryker's tail waved about teasingly in his face, but his paws stayed where they were as he took the insults the lion spat out like a champ. At least, it would seem that way if it were not for how his jaw clenched and his limbs began to tremble. "I get that your ego is gigantic, but you are quite tiny," the lion had spoken, and then he was gone, but his burning words lingered at the back of the tabby's brain. As if snapped from a trance, Crow glanced down at his scraggly legs and flexed his toes into the soil angrily. He really was small, wasn't he? Small and pathetic and full of himself. Weak and scrawny.
Several tears of frustration slid down his cheeks, and biting his lip, he loudly huffed and ran away, hoping no one had noticed the lapse in his composure.
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Crow recoiled, nose crinkled, as Stryker's tail waved about teasingly in his face, but his paws stayed where they were as he took the insults the lion spat out like a champ. At least, it would seem that way if it were not for how his jaw clenched and his limbs began to tremble. "I get that your ego is gigantic, but you are quite tiny," the lion had spoken, and then he was gone, but his burning words lingered at the back of the tabby's brain. As if snapped from a trance, Crow glanced down at his scraggly legs and flexed his toes into the soil angrily. He really was small, wasn't he? Small and pathetic and full of himself. Weak and scrawny.
Several tears of frustration slid down his cheeks, and biting his lip, he loudly huffed and ran away, hoping no one had noticed the lapse in his composure.
//out